Workaround missing /usr/bin/wine64.

[jre-wine]

Workaround case where wine and related binaries are in /usr/bin, but wine64 is only in Wine's bindir (as in Debian wine 8.0~repack-4). Use /usr/bin/wineboot (which is a symlink in Debian packaging) to figure out the bindir, because /usr/bin/wine is a wrapper script in Debian.

See discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/1031649.

I'm not sure if this already should be added in Winetricks, probably this depends on the next set of Debian Wine packages. For now I applied this patch in Debian.

Tested with the deb packages from Debian wine 8.0~repack-2 and 8.0~repack-4, and Winehq winehq-staging 8.2~bookworm-1.

[austin987]

I appreciate the patch, but not everyone has wine installed in /usr/bin ;).

This will need a more general solution (see also #2030).

[Gcenx]

Also only the gnu version of readlink supports -f, using that option would effectively break winetricks on platforms that don’t use gnu utility’s.

[austin987]

Also only the gnu version of readlink supports -f, using that option would effectively break winetricks on platforms that don’t use gnu utility’s.

FWIW, the version of readlink that I see on macOS 12.6 (gcc104 from https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/):
macOS 12.6 June 22, 2017 macOS 12.6

supports readlink -f. Do you happen to know if that is recent in OSX/in other versions? The binary there is from /usr/bin, and comes from BSD, so I don't think it's homebrew/etc. thing, but I could definitely be wrong.

[Gcenx]

Hum readlink -f does work on macOS Ventura (13.x) but it doesn’t work on macOS Mojave (14.x)

So maybe macOS Monterey (12.x) and macOS Ventura (13.x) have a new enough version of readlink.

Might need to require coreutils package on macOS for greadlink for legacy versions of macOS.

[jre-wine]

I just want to clarify that Winetricks won't be "broken" if readlink -f is not working. Only this specific workaround wouldn't work.
And of course this workaround is only a fix for a specific setup as in current Debian unstable, but it is no fix for a completely missing wine64 as we might see if wine is compiled the new way (--enable-archs=i386,x86_64).

[austin987]

Does austin987@05c43b5 work for the debian package?

[jre-wine]

Unfortunately not, even with the -preloader packages installed. Their binaries are also only installed to Wine's bindir (I just had a quick glance at the commit, but I assume that's the issue).

$ wine --version 
wine-8.0 (Debian 8.0~repack-4)
$ ./src/winetricks
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warning: Unknown wine-loader binary type ("cannot open `' (No such file or directory)"). Please open a bug and attach output of "./src/winetricks -v"
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$ ./src/winetricks -v
[...]
+ latest_version=20230212
+ echo 20230212
+ grep -q -E [0-9]{8}
+ [ -z 20230212 ]
+ [ ! 20230212-next = 20230212 ]
+ [ ! 20230212-next = 20230212-next ]
+ W_ISO_MOUNT_ROOT=/mnt/winetricks
+ W_ISO_USER_MOUNT_ROOT=/home/jens/winetricks-iso
+ W_ISO_MOUNT_LETTER=i
+ WINE=wine
+ command -v wine-preloader
+ dirname wine
+ test -x 
+ test -x wine-preloader
+ test -x 
+ test -x ./loader/wine-preloader
+ file 
+ _W_file_output=cannot open `' (No such file or directory)
+ w_die Unknown wine-loader binary type ("cannot open `' (No such file or directory)"). Please open a bug and attach output of "./src/winetricks -v"
+ w_warn Unknown wine-loader binary type ("cannot open `' (No such file or directory)"). Please open a bug and attach output of "./src/winetricks -v"
+ [ -z  ]
+ printf %s\nwarning: %b\n%s\n ------------------------------------------------------ Unknown wine-loader binary type ("cannot open `' (No such file or directory)"). Please open a bug and attach output of "./src/winetricks -v" ------------------------------------------------------
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warning: Unknown wine-loader binary type ("cannot open `' (No such file or directory)"). Please open a bug and attach output of "./src/winetricks -v"
------------------------------------------------------
+ test 
+ unset _W_timeout
+ exit 1
+ winetricks_cleanup
+ test 
+ set +e
+ test -f /tmp/winetricks.lohAWTaw/w.jens.103921/dd-pid
+ test 
+ [  = 1 ]

[kenorb]

I've tested on the latest Debian Docker container and PR seems to fix the problems as per #2119 (comment).

[melroy89]

I have the same problem with WineGUI, it impact various distros now. And you're indeed correct there is no wine64 binary, but only a wine wrapper script.

I hope a final solution can soon be released for Winetricks, solving this urgent issue once and for all.

[jre-wine]

I updated this PR for both issues mentioned here before:

Instead of hardcoding /usr/bin/wineboot I use WINESERVER_BIN to figure out wineboot's path. If this doesn't work there shouldn't be a regression, just a missed opportunity to figure out where wine64 might be after other attempts also failed.

readlink exists on MacOS, but does not support "-f" on MacOS < 12.3. So I use perl there now.
I use "perl" without checking if it is installed at all. (Even though it is installed on MacOS per default since a certain version that I forgot, it still might've been uninstalled). But perl is already used in other places of Winetricks without special checks, and it looks cleaner that way.

There are further readlink-related optimizations possible which I might implement with the help of some MacOS users if someone thinks it's worth the effort (I don't). See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055671/how-can-i-get-the-behavior-of-gnus-readlink-f-on-a-mac

• If we know the MacOS version, we might use "readlink -f" on current MacOS.
• If I know the exact syntax and filepath we might use greadlink (provided by a separate package)
• As fallback we might use "stat" - but the syntax I found on the web doesn't work on Linux.

Feedback and testing welcome, especially from MacOS users.

EDIT: the new commit b449a07 below just fixes the commit message, no changes.

[jre-wine]

Updated to allow for parent dirs containing wineserver in their name (same as in PR 2189)
Now I use dirname for the dir, and basename+sed for the filename (to allow for suffixes in the filename.

[melroy89]

Hopefully @austin987 now agrees with this.

[jre-wine]

I moved the basics for determining Wine's bindir (readlink and wineboot) to a place where it can be used both for determining the wineserver and wine arch (#2189), and the wine64-only-in-BINDIR workaround (this PR). These basics are in a seperate commit that is shared by both PRs.

[austin987]

Thanks @Chiitoo, and sorry for the delay in reviewing!